Project: SADiLaR: Monolingual corpora for isiXhosa

Type: Monolingual text corpora
Languages: 	IsiXhosa (xh_ZA).
Date: 2025-06-10
Version: 2.0 (Final)

Description: 
Monolingual corpus for isiXhosa. The data is given as a single UTF-8 text file, with each segment on a newline. 
The dataset contains existing data sourced for the DAC funded Autshumato project as well as new data sourced for the SADiLaR: Parallel corpora for English into isiXhosa project. 
NOTE: Version 2.0 has been processed in the same way as the other Autshumato resources.

Content:
							|  Segments	|  XH Words   |
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Entire isiXhosa dataset		|  341,330	|  4,328,245  |

Source(s):
Documents from various South African domains (mainly government and publications).

Autshumato Project website: http://autshumato.sourceforge.net/
SADiLaR website: https://sadilar.org/index.php/en/

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Licence for final (v1.0) distribution: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
 
URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 
Attribute work to: 
	CTexT® (Centre for Text Technology, North-West University), South Africa; 
	SADiLaR (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources), South Africa;
	Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa.
Attribute work to URL:	
	http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/ctext
    https://sadilar.org
	http://www.dac.gov.za